‘Doctor Who’ Season 10: New Compann Bill Potts is Gay — Pearl Mackie – TVLe

Contents:

• DOCTOR WHO GETS FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN
• CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO
• ABOUT TIME: 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY TARDIS RINT
• 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• ‘DOCTOR WHO’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• DOCTOR WHO INTRODUC FIRST GAY COMPANN
• DOCTOR WHO SEASON 10 FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: NEW DOCTOR WHO WILL FEATURE 'FIRST GAY DOCTOR'
• DOCTOR WHO'S BILL POTTS TO BE SHOW'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN
• DOCTOR WHO: NEW COMPANN IS OPENLY GAY, BUT IT IS ‘NOT THE MA THG THAT DEF HER,’ SAYS PEARL MACKIE
• ‘DOCTOR WHO’: PEARL MACKIE WILL PLAY THE FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN THE SERI

DOCTOR WHO GETS FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

Media ptn, "Bill’s gay and shouldn’t be a big al. "The new seri of Doctor Who will see the Time Lord joed by his first openly gay Potts's sexualy will be revealed pretty much straightaway her send le of dialogue when the show returns to BBC One on 15 April. "She add: "It's important to say people are gay, people are black - there are also aliens the world as well so watch out for them.

CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO

""[Beg gay] is not the ma thg that f her character - 's somethg that's part of her and somethg that she's very happy and very fortable wh. "Image source, BBC, Ray BurmistonImage ptn, Pearl Mackie will jo Peter Capaldi - who will appear his last seri of Doctor WhoGay and bisexual characters have featured Doctor Who before, such as Capta Jack and River Song, but this is the first time the Doctor's permanent pann has been openly gay. Confirmatn of First Gay Doctor Promis a Queer Era of Doctor Who.

Ncuti Gatwa's 14th Doctor has been nfirmed as gay, which promis a queer future for Doctor Who, along wh Yasm Fney's trans pann Rose.

ABOUT TIME: 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY TARDIS RINT

Neil Patrick Harris has recently wrapped his filmg for Doctor Who Wal, and nfirmed a Variety terview that Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor will be gay the upg seri that will lnch Rsell T.

Between Gatwa's 14th Doctor beg gay and Fney's Rose beg trans, the new era of Doctor Who is promisg to be the bolst and queert era yet.

'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN

While LGBTQIA reprentatn on Doctor Who has been prent sce the begng of Davi' first era 2005, Season 14 will actually be the first time the show's history that the Doctor will be explicly gay at the start of their n. Lookg back on the revival Doctor Who era, all started wh Davi himself when he st John Barrowman -- a gay actor -- as the first pansexual pann to Christopher Ecclton's 9th Doctor, Capta Jack Harkns.

‘DOCTOR WHO’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN

Gatwa, who prevly starred Sex Edutn, will not only be the fist Black Time Lord, but acrdg to Harris, will be "the first gay Doctor, " which Harris says is "super ol.

DOCTOR WHO INTRODUC FIRST GAY COMPANN

(DOC: LGBTQ In The Worlds Of Doctor Who) Ined, the show began before homosexualy was crimalised England & Wal 1967[4], and Stland 1980. Wrer Ian Briggs revealed many years after the productn of The Curse of Fenric that the story's Dr Judson was tend to be — like the man he was based on, Alan Turg — stgglg wh his homosexualy, but this was ultimately cut as 1988, was still not generally nsired appropriate to discs such topics a fay programme. ], would then see the first unambiguo gay reprentatn.

DOCTOR WHO SEASON 10 FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN

Rsell T Davi' novel Damaged Goods 1996 then put signifint foc on Brish gay culture of the 1980s, wh the Doctor's pann Chris Cwej gog to a club. From then on, the programme — not to mentn s more adult-orientated sp-off, Torchwood, wh Jack the lead — ntaed many referenc to var sexual orientatns, and monstrated the evolutn of views towards homosexualy humany's future.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: NEW DOCTOR WHO WILL FEATURE 'FIRST GAY DOCTOR'

Steven Andrew, then Head of Drama and Acquisns for CBBC, also requted that Davi put a gay character The Sarah Jane Adventur, an attempt to troduce a "normal" gay teenager to children's televisn. Beyond televisn, 2011 brought the First Doctor a gay male pann om the 1960s, Oliver Harper.

He was ashamed and aaid to reveal his sexualy to them, fear of gettg kicked out of the TARDIS, as homosexualy was crimalised his time, but the Doctor assur him that this persecutn was "society's crime", and not Oliver's. Featured as a teenager durg the late 1960s his but, The Fotten Son, is dited that he was unable to be open about beg gay out of fear of how people would react. Sectn 28, a piece of legislatn effectively banng the "promotn of homosexualy" classrooms, was troduced the UK 1988 – which was also the year we saw Coal Hill School for the fal time the origal n of Doctor Who.

DOCTOR WHO'S BILL POTTS TO BE SHOW'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

[1] Though neher character would utilise any specific terms the episos of the TV show to scribe their specific sexualy, Mattsz would scribe himself as gay Now You Know...

DOCTOR WHO: NEW COMPANN IS OPENLY GAY, BUT IT IS ‘NOT THE MA THG THAT DEF HER,’ SAYS PEARL MACKIE

- a 2018 d story that would also touch upon the impact of homophobic bullyg to Mattsz's school life. 2017 saw the but of televised Doctor Who's first openly gay full-time pann, Bill Potts.

Addnally, the sole exceptn to this, V, is dited by Luci as homosexual - "He only lik men.

‘DOCTOR WHO’: PEARL MACKIE WILL PLAY THE FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN THE SERI

It was also important to Rsell T Davi that the new team clu a particular kd of gay reprentatn which he saw as important to the morn era: the olr gay man, here St John Colchter, who is settled down wh his hband, Col. The year would also see one of the stori The Dimensn Cannon - entled The Flood - feature a parallel universe where Mickey Smh was stead a homosexual relatnship wh a male unterpot of Rose lled Rob Tyler. The boxset - both released and set 2020 - would reveal that Helen Sclair had an olr brother, Albert, who had been disowned by their father after he'd been imprisoned for beg gay durg a time when had been illegal the UK.